One night George Duncan
- decent man a good man
- is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly a great white crane has tumbled

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From diggers to loaders learn how these big building machines work & why we use them. There is a final review page that helps test childrens learning in a fun way. This title

Features: bold bright photographs; high-frequency words; & easy-to-read text.

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Part of Penguins" beautiful hardback " Clothbound Classics" series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Gaskells best known work is set in a small rural town inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation & gossip at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns & her sister Miss Matty. But domestic peace is constantly threatened in the form of financial disaster imagined burglaries tragic accidents & the reappearance of long-lost relatives." ...

This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Cranford" by Elizabeth Gaskell. Just at this moment he passed us on the stairs making such a graceful bow in reply to which I dropped a curtsey
- all foreigners have such polite manners one catches something of it. " Cranford" is an affectionate & often moving portrait of genteel poverty & intertwined lives in a nineteenth-century village. One of Elizabeth Gaskells most beloved works it centres on a community dominated by women & governed by old-fashioned ways. The formidable Miss Deborah Jenkyns & the kindly Miss Mattys days revolve around card games tea thriftiness & an endless appetite for scandal until change comes into their world
- whether it is the modern ideas of Captain Brown a bank collapse rumours of burglars or an unexpected reappearance from the past. " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."

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The thriving Cheshire town of Cranford is on the brink of momentous change with the imminent arrival of the railways & the threat it brings to the established way of life. In this glorious book Sue Birtwistle & Susie Conklin explain how Elizabeth Gaskells timeless stories were interwoven to create their dramatisation; then join Miss Matty & her friends for a guided tour round their bustling neighbourhood before discovering how the production team recreated the costumes landscapes & decor of an 1840s town. This beautifully illustrated volume is redolent with the attention to detail that has won Cranford so many awards. ...

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: a gifted student quiet never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father Kristina disappears & Bree takes her place. Bree is a total opposite to Kristina
- she's fearless. Through a boy she meets Bree is introduced to the monster: crank. & what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind her soul & ultimately her life.
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People who play golf are by & large perfect gentlemen & ladies. It is after all a sport which takes pride in fair play etiquette good manners & consideration for others. Golf is also a rollercoaster sport a game of outrageous fortunes that makes you feel like a Tiger one minute & a tame pussy the next. The great moments are few & far between but it is these that keep you coming back. A stinker of a round which would make Saint Andrew cranky as hell will be soon forgotten if you can play a few holes well strike the ball beautifully & pick up a par or two. Its not surprising that many older players well & truly justify the description of Cranky Old Golfers (COGs). Golf provides them with unlimited opportunities for a good moan & groan. COGs are by definition found in the seniors section & they gather in great numbers at every golf club in the land most mornings. Cranky is of course a perfectly normal condition for a golfer. All golfers are cranky some of the time. COGs are much more irascible than other golfers however; they have been playing golf a lot longer & the trials & tribulations of golf have taken a toll on their nervous systems. COGs can find fault in almost any situation or anybody & are easily wound up COGs have perfected the art of giving withering stares when players inadvertently break a silence at tee off or when they spot a visitor with the wrong type of socks or worse an untucked shirt...! ...

Graffiti. It can be a diverse form of expression & thought provoking art; whether painted on the side of a train or on a canvas hanging in a gallery. Or as you will see immortalised in the glorious pages of Crap Graffiti" it can be crude drunken daubing nonsensical statements or hilarious outpourings of uncontained rage. " Crap Graffiti" documents these bizarre & puerile creations celebrates the inept & enthusiastically applauds creative dyslexia. This is definitely not art but really awful lame graffiti: the incompetent attempts of beginners or the profound musings of lunatics scrawled on the back of toilet cubicle doors. Welcome to the Cream of the Crap." ...

A countdown of the 40 worst Members of Parliament in British political history. You could be forgiven for thinking that our current crop of MPs are a bunch of sleaze-ridden money-grabbing self-serving individuals with a tendency to be economical with the truth & less than economical with their expenses. & you may well be right but are they any worse then their predecessors? In Crap MPs Grosvenor & Hicks have uncovered the 40 worst MPs* in history
- a motley collection of rogues liars murderers shaggers madmen & criminals many of whom would have been better off behind bars than running the country (actually some of them did end up in prison). The identity of the final 40 will remain a closely guarded secret until publication date but we can reveal that it

Includes:: ten currently serving MPs one Churchill several drunks & one poor blighter who was simply in the wrong job at the wrong time. *in their opinion


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Sutherland is one of the most ruggedly beautiful & sparsely populated parts of Scotl&. In the nineteenth century the Duke of Sutherland set about improving his landholdings to make them more productive by building lodges for sporting tenants who came to enjoy the summer fishing & shooting grouse & deer. In the 1870s some 3 000 acres of land were reclaimed at Shinness. A lodge was built there in 1882 & allocated some 2 500 acres of moorland for grouse & grazing together with the fishings on Loch Shin & its rivers. One of the first keepers at the estate was John Fraser. His daughter Iby became a teacher at Lairg School. In the 1970s long after the Fletcher family had taken on Shinness Estate Iby wrote down some recollections of her early life for Mrs Fletchers interest. ...